Do you want Melissa McCarthy on your back glass now that's scary

I don't get the hate for the female cast. What's the problem? It's not like they're going to use the old cast. Obviously a new film will require new actors. And they're women? So ... ?

Might need to be a widebody then

No big deal for me but if the entire cast is women, that targets the audience to mostly women IMO. Men and women are not the same so I think it makes a difference if you cast a man or women for a role. Sometimes it works but sometimes it does not. For instance, changing James Bond to a woman would not work but you can make a super spy movie with a woman lead. I'm not sure what the new Ghostbusters movie is going to be about but having an all women cast is a strange start.

It's a gimmick. The cartoons were far more diverse and didn't feel like they were shoving it down my throat. I'm surprised the ghost logo doesn't have breasts.

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Why is an all woman cast a gimmick, but an all male cast isn't?

Ghostbusters is about a group of people who aren't even sure they really believe getting sucked in way over their heads.

And of course saving the day.

They're Everyman characters. Not superspy icons like James Bond.

Anyways, word is the game is old movie. So who cares.

supposed to be a spring release with old cast of the game as girl movie released July 2016.

also heard a upper playfield ? all speculation and rumour, hopefully not a stripped GoT style of game where the upper playfield won't be in the pro version.

hopefully a Trudeau game, wider apart flippers, 2 ramps with 2 ramp entrances not one like the mustang (2 ramps with one only entrance) and not a wrestling type repetitive upper playfield.

It's a gimmick because it takes an existing property and tries to make it relevant to a segment of the audience that it initially wasn't aimed for and it does it in an over the top way.

" Let's take the ghostbusters make them 3 white women and one black woman and make the receptionist a man. Yeah!"

An all woman cast is not a gimmick in a movie like Bridesmaids or Pitch Perfect because they are making an original movie for a female cast. There is no trickery going on. That's why a lot fans feel slighted because for many years they wanted a Ghostbusters sequel and this was the result. Something that takes the name of Ghostbusters but aims at an entirely different audience.

I don't hope for it's failure but I know the movie is not aimed at me, a fan of the original. I haven't watched McCarthy in much because I haven't been a fan of hers in the things I have watched, same with Wiig. I have enjoyed the little I've seen of Leslie Jones on SNL. With that said, if it does well it will surprise me.

Here's a Leslie Jones skit I really enjoyed from SNL...

http://www.hulu.com/embed.html?eid=jugdb8erzt8x-nnyie16wa

I'm hoping a January announcement at 2016 CES. I saw WWE at CES this year.

Doesn't that seem a little early? How did it go this year with WWE, Kiss, and GOT?

It's a stupid cash in remake of an old movie franchise. I can't even work up any emotion over it one way or the other. If it's good and funny I'll watch it at home probably. There hasn't even been a trailer yet AFAIK, so just seems waaaaay to early to get worked up over it.

I'd feel just as ambivalent over an all male remake. Another remake. Yay.

Companies are just less and less risk averse now. Stick with the tried and true, cash in as best and fast as you can, and keep moving. It's no different than pinball being all licensed titles now. Is what it is.

There are worse movies to reboot than Ghostbusters. Just like Stern was smart to bring back Kiss. I can respect both things, even if I don't really care for either move. But I dislike Kiss, and I was a Ghostbusters fan, so I guess there's at least a chance I win on this one.

You're so right there. I've told this story already but this past weekend I wanted to watch a movie at a theater, Bone Tomahawk. An R-rated horror/western starring Kurt Russell with a good cast. It reviewed really well with a 86% on RT and was released this past weekend. Apparently it was a limited release and VOD same day. So it wasn't in any theaters in my area and I just watched it at home on Amazon. The death of theaters is coming and it's not because I'm not willing to go. It's because they won't put anything out but big budget tent pole movies.

Back to pinball...

Are you a fan of keeping dots?

From what I've read, this seems to be the same reason Rick Moranis wasn't interested in a having a cameo in it.

Well if you're going to do movie scenes just go hi rez.

I'm just not really sold on movie clips being awesome replacements for proper hand animation.

Hobbit is doing a pretty nice job, easily the best example out so far. Some of it works pretty well too, JP did a great job. Smaug flying up and spinning the gold out into the extra ball (I think) was great.

But for instance, Bilbo walking around reading the contract in his house? Zzzzz.

I look at a game like Metallica, which has IMHO the best dots ever done on a game, and I'd take them over movie clips. And the beauty of that is they're short. Frying Sparky is the longest clip I can think of. Punchy, fast, to the point.

Now I have a ColorDMD, I'm not watching them in red. Give me colored animation, dots or otherwise, and I'm gonna be stoked. Doesn't mean movie clips can't work, I just think they're not a slam dunk.

I dunno, it's a case by case basis. I think of Ghostbusters and there's obviously some good stuff. But it doesn't strike me as enough for a whole pin. I could be wrong! Hell, I'm not at all convinced it's going to have an LCD screen. Gonna just wait and see. Easy enough to judge without even seeing things, but not particularly fair or useful.

I hope this is true.

A Ghostbusters pin would be awesome. ?

I'm so stoked for a Ghostbusters pin. A Trudeau/Lyman team would be great too.
BUT...
If this turns out to be A Mustang, re-themed with the Ecto-1 car rotating where the Mustang was, I'm going to loooooooooooooooooooooooooose it!
: )
So excited for this pin, I couldn't get the theme song out of my head today at work.

I wouldn't be surprised if Stern did ghostbusters, wonder how long they've been working on it.

if Stern were smart they would either do the original cast for pro, premium and le or make it generic with characters on swap out plastics and offer the alternate casts on "mod" plastics. They would lose so many sales of pro if they go new cast on pro.

that said have heard it is original cast

The chances of Stern making a Ghostbusters based off the remake are about as likely as Al Gore becoming a spokesperson for VW.

How about the Lego Ecto-1 as a topper?

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Why not remake Jaws with a killer whale and get rid of the shark

Exactly! Somethings should be left alone. The only way I would want Ghostbusers brought back to life is in a pin.

So would Lyman be doing the code for this?

Ok thanks

Why? You still have the original and a new Ghostbusters movie isn't going to take that away from you. What if I told you that there is always the option of just not watching it if offends you that much?

Also a Jaws remake with a killer whale would probably be better then Jaws 4.

It's not offensive - just a dumb move IMO. Instead of trying to make a good original movie, you have people trying to cash in on the brand to get fans in but change the formula to make it different and to bring in non fans. Fans don't like it and no one else cares because it's nothing new. I rather not have any of these so called remakes to begin with. Doubt I will watch it even if it's free on tv.

Exactly right! !

Last I checked there are plenty of quality films that are remakes. Did you like the original 1982 "The Thing" and hated that they attempted to replicate that classic in 2011? Fun fact the original John Carpenter film was also a remake based off a movie released in 1951 called "The Thing from Another World"

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You can forget it, we're not changing our minds. The new GB film is a lead pipe lock for the " films that suck hall of fame".

It's hard to argue if Ghostbusters will be good or bad without it being released. Hell it may be garbage I don't know because I haven't even seen a trailer for it.

It may appeal to a new generation, but for those of us that grew up with the original, it doesn't stand a chance.

My guess is that Ghostbusters is going to be done by the Star Trek / WWE team.

Does anyone have an link to the Ghostbusters art that was supposedly floating around a few days ago? I never saw it.

Yeah, I'm dying to see that too if anyone has it and will share via PM.

Is this really happening? Or is this like the jaws pin?

Somehow I think this is more likely.........just a hunch.

If not made on the old cast which we know it will be hard to do no need for this pin with new cast as movie will flop. Rather Jaws be made for sure.

Evidently it wasn't actually hard to do.

I can't read apparently.